Aston Martin Formula One driver Lance Stroll called for safety improvements at Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit after Dutch racer Dilano van't Hoff died competing in a junior series on Saturday.The 18-year-old, who was taking part in a wet Formula Regional European Championship race, was the second such fatality in four years at the Belgian Grand Prix circuit."It’s a tragic day for motorsport," said Stroll after finishing fourth in a Formula One sprint race at Austria's Red Bull Ring."My thoughts are with him today.
It breaks my heart what happened and I think Eau Rouge at Spa needs some looking into because we’ve lost two drivers now in the span of four or five years."It’s a really dangerous corner and we say it every year and it’s not fair what happened today."I think that corner has to change.
I think it’s way too dangerous and I think every time we go through there there’s an accident waiting to happen. Today it happened again and we lost a young kid and it’s not fair."Spa hosts the Belgian Grand Prix on Jul 30.Eau Rouge is the name given to the circuit's most famed corner but that left-handed kink leads into the fast and steep Raidillon right-hander.French racer Anthoine Hubert died in August 2019 in a multi-car accident at the exit of Raidillon in an F2 race, with his car hitting barriers and bouncing back on track.Organisers made changes after that crash, notably by enlarging run-off areas and moving back barriers.Double world champion Fernando Alonso, Formula One's most experienced driver and Stroll's team mate, said the real risk was a lack of visibility in the wet."We cannot see anything.